Stories to Love

100. Adele Buck - The Antisocial Season and a spotlight on the prickly heroine

Tif Marcelo

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Episode 100. Today’s guest is author Adele Buck.

A New Hampshire native, Adele still has membership card number 430 from her hometown library even though she has lived in the D.C. area for over 20 years with her fantastic husband and the requisite number of melodramatic cats.

Having worked as (among other things): a bookseller, a server, a communications manager, an actor, and a stage manager, Adele is currently employed as a librarian at a Washington, D.C. law school.

Her books have been featured in Entertainment Weekly and BookRiot and reviewed in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist.

In this episode, we discussed The Anti-Sosocial Season, which is a holiday romance. This episode is a long time coming. I read this book over the holidays and we did our interview back in February. I love this episode though because the book resonated with me so much with its themes that I do believe are evergreen. We discussed prickly heroines and conflicts that come up during the holidays, her point of view writing a librarian as a librarian, consent in romance and the third act breakup.

Links discussed:

Victoria Dahl: Taking the Heat

Murderbot Diaries

Serena Bowen - Bountiful

Courtney Milan’s Trade Me

Maria Vale

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Current release: THEIR SECOND FIRST DATE

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